Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 8! Short week. Remember:
- Today – Champlain College Rep comes to GAWD to talk to us about Champlain as a post secondary option after high school. We will do Critiques in the PM.
- Tuesday – GAWD / GAWD2 goes to Champlain for a tour. We will arrive a little late for lunch and eat our bagged lunches in the room. We will do Critiques in the PM.
- Wednesday will be normal. Midweek morning meetings and some new content regarding rotating movement for propellers for our possible floating islands.
- Thursday and Friday – off!
- Due to this we will only have a single project this week that will be due after your 4 day weekend – DH8: Level 2 Concept Art.
- No break this AM due to our presentation.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Design Homework 8: Sky Level 2 Concept Art
The second level of our game will exist over the first level, in one of many different possible ways. We will spawn in this new section of the existing project at a different player start. Only through collection of a certain number of item will we jump from Level 1 to Level 2 – again, in the same project. Let’s take a look at the image above as an example.
What can your Level 2 be setup like? You have options:
- Simply higher terrain, along the mountains, that is inaccessible from the first level.
- A floating island, something fantasy and magical.
- Something manmade / steampunk, with propellers for instance keeping it up over the first level (this is what we intro will practice on Wednesday).
In the next page of your Sketchbook I want you to fill the page with possibilities for this second level.
Full size scene is an option:
Smaller disparate components as brainstorms is an option:
Save your file as lastNameDH_8.jpg.
10:15 Last Looks
Low Poly Forest Level
- lastNameLevel_1.mp4
Design Homework 7: Outdoor Landscape Concept Art
- lastNameDH_7.jpg
Week 7 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
Week 7 work will be copied down at the start of lunch.
10:35 Champlain College Presentation
- Screens off
- Be a good audience / ask good questions
- Remember that we are going to Champlain tomorrow to start putting these ideas we hear about today into physical form
11:35 Last Looks
Low Poly Forest Level
- lastNameLevel_1.mp4
Design Homework 7: Outdoor Landscape Concept Art
- lastNameDH_7.jpg
Week 7 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
Week 7 work will be copied down at the start of lunch.
11:55 Lunch
- No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
- You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.
12:25 Attendance and Article
12:30 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.
If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.
12:50 A Gentleman in Moscow
Imagine being sentenced to spend your life inside a luxury hotel. In A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Count Alexander Rostov faces exactly that. Trapped in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel after the Russian Revolution, he builds unexpected friendships and watches history unfold outside. The novel asks an important question: Can you still build a meaningful life when your freedom is taken away?
A class read-along gives us a chance to slow down, disconnect from screens, and get lost in a great book together. As we read, you’ll naturally build your vocabulary, strengthen your reading skills, and experience a story.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.
If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.
2:00 Afternoon Practice & Production
Design Homework 8: Sky Level 2 Concept Art
- lastNameDH_8.jpg
Or work digitally on upcoming work.
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:
- Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
- Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
- Unplug
At the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
